A little stability would be nice once in a while

I was looking at Newsarama today (as one does) and came across Journey Into Comics: I Have A Dream, specifically,

I have a dream that Marvel will be able to pull together all its disparate, raggedy-edged storylines into a whole, complete, satisfying finale.

Mainly, it's a hope for some eventual resolution to the various events that are currently going on in the Marvel Universe. And I've got to say, I want that too.

I remember when I was a kid. Back then, a comic event was an event. It was a rarity. It was remarkable because it stood apart from what you usually saw in the title--from the norm.

None of the current event storylines--none, really, over the last several years--have that feeling of importance about them.

And it's not just a nostalgia thing, although I know I can be as guilty as the next old fan of idealizing the comics of my youth. It's that there is no longer a norm for the events to contrast with.

I do understand that the Marvel team (presumably) is trying to create an effect of lost control, terrible things piling up one after the other, how Civil War and the whole registration thing will be put to the test by the whole War War Hulk thing, the Skrull invasion thing, etc. It's effective to a point. But eventually you have to sort of return to center and let the readers get their bearings.

It's one thing for the characters to be thinking "God, there's got to be an end to this!" It's another thing when the readers are thinking it.